Upgrading a 6.1.54 to 6.2.1

[mrforsythexeter]

ok, ok.. I know this should have been upgraded, nearly a century ago... however we are all busy...

I have downloaded the oldest version I can find from sourceforge... which is 6.2.1 and smashed together a quick docker build and compose to get a local copy running for upgrading.

I have got enough php extensions installed to get past the install screen (mysqli, pdo, pdo_mysql, calendar, mcrypt, pspell, zip) and sorted all the permission problems, which gets to the screen where I can agree to "continue" the upgrade... however it then throws a warning...

Controller('GO\Maintenance\Controller\UpgradeController') not found: r=maintenance/upgrade

I have used php 5.6 (felt better than min requirement of 6.4 for this version of GO), also if autoloading was going to be a problem it made sense.

Can someone help explain why this missing / what the fix maybe.. I can create a new repo with work so far, if you want to check it out.

If this isn't the best version jump, can you tell me next logical jump, as I can't find any older versions.

[michalcharvat]

The best would be upgrade from 6.1.54 to 6.1.139 and then you can upgrade to 6.2.x
Then check /install/gotest.php whether all requirements are fullfilled.

[mrforsythexeter]

On further investigation, the language stage was failing, this was due to the path update for my docker container, to the root install missing a directory separator '/' on the end. once this was in place I was able to get to verion 6.2.1, I will continue on from here, doing the 6.x upgrades and see how far I get.

Thank you

[mrforsythexeter]

I have managed to get to 6.2.69-PHP71, however when trying to get to 6.2.135-php71 visiting /install I get to the data storage stage and it reports "database must be empty", how are you meant to complete the upgrade, I don't see this error in the documentation or a step that requires an empty database. Any idea's?

[michalcharvat]

You should run /install/upgrade.php script not clean install.

[mrforsythexeter]

Thank you for the quick response

It wasn't working as it appears to ignore config.php in the site home directory for this version. So I created a config.ini in /etc/groupoffice/ with the basic settings of the previous config.php which appeared to get it started

The upgrade script ended in the error

core/users updated from 1 to 2
/var/www/html/modules/email/install/updatescripts/3_re_encrypt.php not found!

So I went ahead and tried to login... and got the error

An unknown error has occurred. Can't get not existing property 'avatarId' in 'GO\Base\Model\User'

maybe the jump from 6.2.69-PHP71 to 6.3.8-PHP71 is too much?

Have you seen that error, should I maybe try 6.2.69-PHP71 to 6.2.135-PHP71 first?

[mrforsythexeter]

ok, so I tried a smaller step upgrade and have managed to get it to 6.3.8-PHP71

So the path so far is

6.1.139 -> 6.2.1 -> 6.2.135 (PHP71) -> 6.3.8 (PHP71)

So I think I will continue to try first and last, tick tock approach.

I will publish my setup on github when I get to the end of this (and share here), I have a small bash script to help with version switching, building 2 docker instances php56 and php71 for this), docker composer setup for it, pre stage to transfer to your data...

I will create a readme for it as well, just encase anyone else needs to do this.. but I can tell you after getting this up to date, I wont be letting that slip again.

Thank you for your help so far, I will keep this alive with progress (to help other people) or post where my repo is next.